Surviving as the Heavenly Demon’s Concubine - Chapter 72

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“Hmm….”

The girls’ expressions darkened slightly.

The thought of darkness obscuring their vision on top of a forest already filled with sharp blades sent chills down their spines. Songhua from the Mudang Sect spoke up courageously.

“Wouldn’t it be fine if we hurry? After all, the terrain has become more favorable.”

“But what if the battle drags on?”

Moyong Hye said with a worried voice.

What had changed with the formation was only the terrain, and since everyone’s positions remained the same, there was still quite a distance left to travel to escape Geomsu Jiok.

“Miss Jegal, how long can the formation be maintained?”

“Huh? Wa, wait a moment….”

At the sudden question, Jegal Lin hurriedly ran over to check something inside the formation before answering.

“I can maintain it for about half a shichen.”

“Half a shichen? Isn’t that cutting it close?”

The Orthodox Faction girls immediately began murmuring among themselves.

While it would be enough time if they were just running, if by any chance a battle broke out with the Sapa Girls, they would be trapped in Geomsu Jiok without escape.

“We should avoid combat as much as possible….”

“Don’t underestimate the Sapa kids. If they know there’s a clear path, they’ll come right over.”

“We might end up just having our path stolen. You all know that Sapa is ahead of us, right?”

As the Orthodox Faction girls continued their serious and negative discussion, Jegal Lin felt herself shrinking.

‘What should I do? Changing the terrain wasn’t enough, it seems.’

She had to perform well enough for Riser’s share too.

With an anxious heart, Jegal Lin’s eyes darted around until Mujin suddenly came into her view.

In Jegal Lin’s mind, the sound of an abacus rolling echoed as the solution came to her.

“I, I have a way…!”

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Beep beep beep!

Oh. The dumplings are done.

Riser quickly ran over and removed the steamer from the fire.

When she opened the lid to check, as expected, plump and piping hot meat dumplings were completed.

Riser placed the 60 newly steamed dumplings next to the 30 dumplings that had been there before.

All together, it amounted to more than one and a half gapja.

“Complete!”

The moment she shouted that.

White steam rose from all 90 piping hot meat dumplings and instantly filled the entire kitchen.

“Kyaah! What is this!”

Riser flailed about in the uncontrollable steam fog and collapsed on the spot.

When she looked around, not only had the steam that filled the surroundings disappeared, but even the meat dumplings that had been emitting the steam had vanished without a trace.

“Huh? Wha…?”

But Riser seemed to know where it had gone.

Because she could feel the warm energy that filled her dantian swelling like a balloon and stretching out along all the blood vessels in her body.

“Wa, wait… Wait a minute!”

The satisfaction and refreshing feeling that started from her lower abdomen climbed up her spine, sending a tingling, refreshing thrill through her.

All the nerves in her body seemed to scream and tingle, then her internal energy began to swirl powerfully along her blood vessels.

‘Is this okay?’

Looking at the results, it was fine.

It was similar to a situation where the blood in her body had suddenly more than doubled, so the pressure on her blood vessels became that much stronger and the flow faster.

“Haa…. Haa….”

Fortunately, Riser’s blood vessels were prepared like a well-maintained highway, so there were no problems at all. Long live the Beolmosesu.

‘So this is what being on a different level feels like.’

She had thought that half a gapja of internal energy was enough for daily life without any inconvenience.

She painfully realized how narrow-minded and foolish that thinking had been.

To think the whole world could feel so clear and bright, as if it were within her grasp!

“This is… one and a half gapja….”

In the martial arts novels she had read in her previous life, everyone started with at least one gapja, so she had secretly looked down on it.

But experiencing it herself, one and a half gapja of internal energy was truly an enormous amount.

The abundant internal energy flowed through Riser’s conception and governing vessels without gaps, making every part of her body more vigorous and robust.

‘Huh? Wa, wait, wait a minute.’

She suddenly got goosebumps.

Because she realized she had forgotten something very important.

“Then where do I put the poison energy?”

Martial artists who use poison techniques operate their internal energy in two main ways.

One is to convert all of one’s internal energy into poison energy.

The other is to convert part of one’s internal energy into poison energy each time poison techniques are used, using it immediately without leaving poison in the body.

Until now, Riser had operated poison techniques using the latter method.

But….

‘Don’t I have more than one gapja of poison energy right now?’

Riser’s original plan was this:

1) Separate the incompletely digested spiritual medicine energy pooled in her dantian into pure internal energy and impurities.

2) Combine the pure internal energy with her original internal energy for future use as available internal energy.

3) Convert the remaining impurities into poison energy using the Five Poison Circulation Technique, then use it to neutralize poison from poison masters through fighting poison with poison.

Up to this point, everything had proceeded very smoothly.

‘Could it be….’

The problem was what came next.

Riser had only one vessel, so how could she contain two types of energy?

4) Store one in the dantian and circulate the other, alternating between them!

4-1) Huh? It’s overflowing?

“…Am I screwed?”

No. Don’t think hastily.

Carefully….

“I’m screwed.”

Riser clutched her head.

Who knew that one and a half gapja of internal energy would be such a massive amount?

For Riser, who had planned to divide it between her blood vessels and dantian, alternating between ‘storage’ and ‘operation’, this was like a bolt from the blue.

It was such an enormous amount that even when circulating it fully through all her blood vessels, some would still remain in her dantian!

Then what about the 3-gapja, 4-gapja masters in martial arts novels! Do they have external dantians? Cloud internal energy services?

“Phew… Calm down. Qi deviation is coming.”

She was already in a situation prone to qi deviation.

Unless she had learned something like the Mudang Sect’s Yang Divine Technique, one person’s body couldn’t handle two types of energy rampaging around.

‘How strange though.’

Riser’s gaze turned to the curry and eggs placed on the cooking counter.

Fortunately, the curry wasn’t absorbed into Riser’s body and remained in the same state as when the dish was completed.

“The dumplings were absorbed as soon as they were completed.”

If they had been absorbed immediately, it would have been an even bigger problem.

After thinking it over, she suspected it was probably because she hadn’t shouted “Complete!” She had muttered something like “Excellent” instead, but that didn’t seem to count as a completion declaration.

‘It’s like losing a game and insisting ‘It doesn’t count because I didn’t shout challenge.”

While it was a fortunate situation for Riser, she still felt somewhat annoyed (there was no other way to express it) when it happened.

Rumble rumble rumble….

“Hm?”

An earthquake occurred in her mental world.

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